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An outspoken NDC Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Hon. Michael Teye Nyaunu, has rubbished the National Executive Council�s decision to suspend the party�s deputy General Secretary, Kofi Adams. The ruling party�s assistant scribe was suspended over a leaked tape recording, which purportedly had his voice pledging to join opposition forces to defeat President John Mills come the December elections. The NDC Disciplinary Committee led by Professor Kofi Awoonor is investigating the issue whiles Mr. Adams serves a 90-day suspension. Hon. Nyaunu disagreed with the Council�s decision and said it will have negative impact on the party�s unity talks. He told Citi News: �In this regard, I think I disagree with them because he is a senior member of the party and he has denied ever granting such interview.� �This so called tape recording thing I have once been a victim to it and is never true; so I think they should have allowed an investigation to go through first for them to establish a position before the sanction,� the legislator added. �Granted that they go for the investigations and it proves to be otherwise that he never said it, what about the damage that will be caused to his reputation and credibility?� Hon. Nyaunu asked. �They should rather go ahead to investigate and based on the outcome of the investigations so they can slap whatever sanctions they wanted to do on Kofi Adams.� He maintained that former President J.J Rawlings� aide would not descend into the gutters to do such a thing to his own party. He pointed out that the position taken by the party executives would rather deepen the cracks within the NDC. �By doing this thing they are deepening the factions within the party rather than bringing us together. We all know that anybody who associates with the Rawlingses becomes endangered species so far as the party�s activities are concerned.� He insisted, �We have only 10 months to go for the general elections and we are all yearning that we should be able to retain power rather than divide so what they have done I totally disagree with it.�